Nature in the City – art exhibit at the Centre & Eight Galleries
The Nature in the City art exhibit of nature photographs and paintings featuring works of five Saskatoon artists will be on display at the Centre at Circle and Eight Galley in Saskatoon until July 7, 2013. Three of my plant images from the Meet Your Neighbours project are on display, together with works by Louise Cook, Robin and Arlene Karpan, May Haga and Nick Saunders. This exhibit was set up to coincide with the week-long festival Wild About Saskatoon, to celebrate nature and culture in the City of Saskatoon. We set up the art exhibit in a heavily visited area, in a shopping mall right...
Read MoreA large wildfire burns through the Grasslands National Park
A large wildfire swept through the Grasslands National Park at the end of April this year. The fire started in agricultural fields outside of the park and was carried into the park by a strong wind gusting up to 80 kilometres per hour. A large area of the park was affected – the fire travelled approximately 20 kilometres along the Frenchman River Valley and burned an area between one to four kilometres wide. About 200 people fought to contain the flames and by the next afternoon the fire was extinguished and under control. See an article about the wildfire published on CBC News. I...
Read MoreGreat Sand Hills book among top 30 best-sellers in Saskatchewan
A happy news that I am proud to share with you: the Saskatchewan Publishers Group has compiled a list of their top 30 best sellers for 2012. The top-ranking list includes ‘The Great Sand Hills, A Prairie Oasis’ book in 13th place. If you have not picked up a copy, check them out and order a copy. Or two. Here is an excerpt from the book review by Dr. Bram Noble, a University of Saskatchewan professor who was involved in the GSH Regional Environmental Study. The review was published in the Great Plains Research journal, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. “The Great Sand...
Read MoreThe World We Live In Photo Contest
Canadian magazines Photo Life and Photo Solution are running “The World We Live In” photo contest . Professional and amateur photographers residing in Canada and the United States of America are eligible to submit their best work. The deadline for accepting images is November 30, 2012. There are over $40,000 in prizes to be won. Images can be submitted under three photo competition themes: Humanity: Our world has recently exceeded 7 billion people, and each has a story to tell. Capture images of people around you: your family, your neighbours, people you’ve encountered...
Read MoreWhy I like hosting my images with PhotoShelter
My searchable image library is hosted by PhotoShelter, a web-based photography service that allows photographers to upload their high resolution images and automatically create clean and easy-to-use image galleries. The web site hosted with PhotoShelter provides a working photographer with many very useful services: display of images in well organized galleries and image search function, a posibility to create custom portfolios of representative images, has a built-in pricing calculator and ability to deliver high resolution images to clients upon completions of the on-line transaction. I...
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